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trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoBut if has all these issues, why is it so popular, and more importantly, hoe come the developers are not improving the image? Is it because its too complex?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
It’s popular because it works. You don’t get a lot of choice in the NVR area, most of the other projects are kind of ass too.
I also don’t think many people care about the security that much. Either that or they run the container like I do in a VLAN with the cameras. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the obscene amounts of RAM, CPU and storage it wastes for no good reason I wouldn’t care that much about the security either.
Lots of developers are clueless about Docker. They are used to running their stuff on the metal and piling everything together and they don’t even consider they should clean things up before they ship a docker image.
Gramps Web for example is another humongous image, and it’s humongous because apparently the developer can’t be arsed to separate the building stage from the production stage in their Dockerfile, so they’re shipping all the build toolchains. People have pointed this out to them and they’re like “eh whatever”.